mata (“face, screen, eye”) + wā (“time, season”).
- IPA(key): /ma.ta.waː/, [mɐ.tɐ.wɑː]
matawā
- clock
- Synonym: karaka
- watch
- Synonym: wati
- chronometer
- “matawā” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.